criminal trials

Four days after pleading guilty to two charges in connection with a hit-and-run accident that injured a 13-year-old boy, it appears that State Sen. Anthony D. Galluccio may have more legal troubles heading his way. WCVB-TV reported that Galluccio appeared ...

Warning judges to use caution when conducting colloquies for jury-waived trials based on stipulated evidence, the Appeals Court on Monday overturned a conviction in a Brockton firearms case. Emanuel G. Monteiro, 17, was arrested at Brockton High School after a ...

A 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge says a sentence he voted to affirm is a “stain on the robes of American justice.” Judge Juan R. Torruella’s comments are part of his concurring opinion in U.S. v. Cirilo-Munoz, in ...

In a case expected to have widespread ramifications in Massachusetts, the U.S Supreme Court has ruled that lab reports used as evidence by prosecutors in criminal cases require the testimony of lab technicians at trial. The court based its ...

In what lawyers say is an extremely unusual ruling, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday granted a petition for habeas corpus, after it was denied in state and federal courts, and freed a Lee man who has been in prison since 2000 after being convicted of a brutal assault on a woman with a baseball bat.

For the third time in the past year, former prosecutor Gary Zerola sat today in a defendant’s chair to face criminal charges in a Boston courtroom. Only this time, Zerola was in Boston Municipal Court in front of ...